The Cassini space probe has discovered more rings orbiting Saturn. Looking at a back-lit planet (big file but worth it), scientists found two more faint rings around Saturn:
During this period of observation Cassini detected two new faint rings: one coincident with the shared orbit of the moons Janus and Epimetheus, and another coincident with Pallene's orbit.
Saturn's moons and ring system is amazingly complex. The more we learn the more fantastic the universe becomes.
Oh, that dot about 10 o'clock between the main rings and the first faint ring? That's Earth.
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